While I have been using Manila to generate and maintain the Naglee Park website for the last two years. I have used static rendering to hide its dynamic roots. On Monday, I decided to stop using the static site and serve the site directly from Manila.
The process of converting a static Manila site back to a dynamic one is pretty simple. But this site had some legacy pages from before I started using Manila. To serve these pages from Manila, I had to remember back to the days of Frontier 4.
The description below is for serving files at the root level of your site. If you need to create deeper levels, it is usually easier to map a path to a directory using the Domain Admin Tool.
The process is pretty simple. Go to your manilaWebsite database and add a new table called "#templates" in this table add one wpText item named "plain". In plain, add the following text: {bodytext}.
Now for each legacy page that you need to serve, create a new wpText item with the same name as the legacy file (ie. oldIndex.html) in your manilaWebsite database. Open the wpText item and write '#template "plain"' in the first line. Type return twice and then paste the complete source of your legacy page. Save.
Now, go to your browser and type "http://yourDomain/yourLegacyPage". Manila will serve up your legacy page.
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